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Advocacy group lobbies for landlord licensing

Advocacy group lobbies for landlord licensing

About a dozen people rallied in front of an apartment complex in Dartmouth on Saturday. They called on the Halifax Regional Municipality to develop a licensing policy for rental property owners to ensure the safety and health of tenants. “It’s not a God-given right to provide housing just because you own it,” said Hannah Wood, the chair of ACORN, which advocates for people of low or moderate income. “It should be something that you are monitored to do because unfortunately a good-faith system just doesn’t work. “We have tenants in ACORN […]

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Bed bugs and cockroaches: International students in Sudbury, Ont., decry landlord for 14-bed home conversion

Bed bugs and cockroaches: International students in Sudbury, Ont., decry landlord for 14-bed home conversion

When Chinmoy Kar Victor first arrived in Greater Sudbury, Ont., it was after midnight on May 2. After paying an expensive cab ride from the airport to his new rental unit on Bond Street he was shocked to find it wasn’t anything like the pictures he saw online. What was supposed to be a three-bedroom house had been converted to seven bedrooms with multiple people living in each room. Being an international student, Victor didn’t have extra money to go to a hotel, and his work placement was […]

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